Gertrude Atherton, a native San Franciscan, attended St. Mary’s in Benicia. She eloped with a man who had been courting…
Kathleen Thompson Norris was born in San Francisco, California on 16 July 1880. When she was 19 both her parents…
In this story, our hero is…too empathetic? Unable to protect himself from seeing the inequities, the injustices, the impossible situation…
This story is “The Gay Old Dog” by Edna Ferber. Many of Ferber’s stories were made into blockbusters you probably…
This story is by Frank Stockton. Stockton was an American writer and humorist, best known for his allegorical fairy tales…
Thisstory is “To Build A Fire” by Jack London, about an unnamed protagonist who ventures out in the subzero tundra…
This story is “Roger Malvin’s Burial by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Much of Hawthorne’s work belongs to the sub-genre of Dark Romanticism,…
Remember the movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” with Brad Pitt? Did you know that movie is based on…
Here is another episode of the “The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange” by Anna Katherine Green. Green…
This story is “Jane” by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and articles. Many of…